let's get a 30,000 foot view now and for
that we bring in NBC's senior Washington
correspondent haly Jackson and Kristen
Welker moderator of Meet the Press uh
first of all you look great considering
you've only slept you slept maybe 40
minutes between the the two of generous
friend Kristen let me let me let me
start with you
because president Trump president-elect
trump undeniably perhaps the most
transformational politician of our time
twice impeached by the way still faces a
slew of criminal and civil charges
nearly assassinated twice Rises From the
Ashes and and doesn't just win by the
time all the votes are tallied he may
very well get close to 300 electoral
votes how much of what we saw last night
was people flocking to the polls to vote
for Donald Trump how much of it was
folks flocking to the polls to vote
against kamla Harris it's a great
question Craig a little bit of both
first of all think about President
Biden's and the Biden administration's
unpopularity 70% of the country saying
the country was headed in the wrong
direction and that really is at the Crux
of so much of this people want to change
in this election and they clearly viewed
him as the candidate who would bring
about that change so they were voting
against policies that they felt were
keeping prices too high not dealing with
their pocketbook issues quickly enough
and also yes voting for Donald Trump as
well some of them again we've been
talking about this political realignment
the fact that he expanded his support
among Latino voters he expanded his
support among uh non-white voters
something that we just didn't think we
would see and just a point about the
legal issues I mean just how
extraordinary is it when we started the
primary process that was the big X
Factor how would his legal challenges
impact them would he would they sink him
not only did they not sink him they
emboldened him in the primary and he
survived two assassination attempts this
is truly a lot of foreign leaders are
writing him to say it's one of the
greatest comebacks in political history
and in a lot of ways it is hiy let's
talk about the gender gap that's all we
heard yesterday it's all going to come
down to the gender gap so what happened
here okay so let me take this in a
couple of pieces so gender gap it
existed right women backed uh vice
president Harris men backed uh president
elect now former president Trump now
president-elect Trump since we've called
the race in the last 30 minutes um and
let me start with I'm going to ask our
control to flip the order of the
graphics since we stared with the gender
gap uh this idea of the so-called broo
right and by that I mean the young men
who the Trump campaign for months had
talked about targeting now remember
young men they don't vote a ton they're
not showing up every four years to get
out there and cast their ballot but the
Trump campaign ided them as somebody who
could as this demographic group who they
could try to turn out and if they could
get those young men men who are more
predisposed to back Donald Trump to the
polls then maybe that would be the key
that's the bet that they made and that
bet has paid off because those young men
showed up in a big way our exit poll
show that he outperformed where he was
with young men from the past two cycles
he did better than 2016 better than 2020
with young men and think about what he
did in his campaign he was on Joe Rogan
he had a yell on MUSC out for him he was
doing all these sort of young men podast
yes spurred on by his son Baron Trump to
some degree uh so that was one of the
Dynamics on the gender gap there but
there something else that emerged I was
going to say last night but let's say in
the overnight hours into into this
morning and that is the Latino vote and
here you saw a very dramatic shift
particularly among Latino men you can
see him here look at this see where he
is in 2020 at 36% with latio men four
years ago that is a nearly 20 points
difference as to where he ended up based
on our early exit polls here this cycle
Latino men broke big for former
president Trump his campaign had also
talked about as Christen alud to they
thought he was going to have a historic
or near historic performance with latino
voters with black voters as well we
really saw it in the Latina demographic
that was a big piece of it and I would
say the other thing what what drove him
to this Victory people just don't feel
good about where the country is right
73% say they're angry or dissatisfied
here and and that those were the
headwinds facing vice president Harris
that she just was not able to overcome
looking moving forward here uh Christen
walker uh we all remember what the first
first four years looked like under
President Trump we all remember that
Administration the rhetoric some of the
policies as well what if anything from
from that Administration can we glean
about what the next four years could
look like do you think perhaps that that
we'll see a different president Trump or
do you think what we've seen is pretty
much what we are going to see well I
think one thing that we could see
policies announced on his TR Social
account remember a lot of times we'd up
and there would be a post on Twitter and
a new policy would be announced but a
couple of things that makes this
different in his first Administration he
was surrounded by some people who wanted
to be a guard rail for him the thinking
is now a lot of the people who are
eyeing the possibility of joining his
administration are people who agree with
him who would be largely yes people and
so would that Dynamic be different he's
been very clear about what he wants to
do just like he was focused in 2016 on
dealing with the issue of illegal
immigration he's very focused on that
right now he says one of his first acts
is going to be to start a mass
deportation Force what does that look
like we have not seen what the policy
proposals actually look like and so I
think that that theme will remain the
same how will it look the other piece of
it is he wants to load his
administration with more allies more
people who are going to be loyal to him
to your to your question too is this
going to be a different Donald Trump I
don't have a crystal ball but what I do
have is a history uh covering Donald
Trump as does Kristen um and he has been
consistent all along right even after
that first assassination attempt against
him he himself talked about pivoting
right before the Republican National
Convention he said he was going to rip
up his speech that he was going to give
which was going to be a barn burner
against Joe Biden and he was going to
strike a unifying tone that is just not
what we saw on that last night of the
Republican convention when he came out
he is somebody who has been very clear
about his positions his policy voters
clearly 68 million of them and Counting
have responded to that uh and there's no
incentive for him to to try to do
anything different here hey thanks for
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